Butterfly: A hummingbird-like butterfly. It's fascinating to observe them drinking nectar from a blossom. Interesting that two totally different species (insect and bird) have the same eating behaviour. (Fujichrome Sensia 400, Nikon F100, AF Micro Nikkor 2.8/105mm, August 2003)

Pyrenees: Mountain summits of the Pyrenees between Spain and France in the light of the settigs sun. I took that picture while flyng home from the Canary islands. — Nikon F100, September 2003

Strait of Gibraltar: Aerial view on the narrow Strait of Gibraltar between Europe and Africa. Spain is at the bottom, Morocco at the top. On the left is Ceuta and on the right Tarifa. A few years later I went there for whale watching. I took that picture while flyng home from the Canary islands. — Nikon F100, September 2003

Pyrenees: Clouds above the Pyrenees between Spain and France in the light of the settigs sun. I took that picture while flyng home from the Canary islands. — Nikon F100, September 2003

Pyrenees: Clouds above the Pyrenees between Spain and France in the light of the settigs sun. I took that picture while flyng home from the Canary islands. — Nikon F100, September 2003

House with Balcony: Corner of an appartment building at La Restinga in the evening sun. This image is slightly retouched: in the lower left corner I removed a shadow of an electric wire. (Fujichrome Provia 100F, Nikon F100, Nikkor MF 1.2/50mm AI-S, El Hierro, September 2003)

La Restinga: View from our apartment's balcony at La Restinga. What you don't see are the many building sites around in the small village. (Fujichrome Provia 100F, Nikon F100, Nikkor ED AF-S 2.8/80-200mm, El Hierro, September 2003)

La Restinga: View from our apartment's balcony at La Restinga. What you don't see are the many building sites around in the small village. (Fujichrome Provia 100F, Nikon F100, Nikkor ED AF-S 2.8/80-200mm, El Hierro, September 2003)

Temple Hall Wreck: The rusty ship wrek of the vessel "Temple Hall" in the light of the setting sun. It lies in the industry zone between Arrecife and Costa Teguise. (Fujichrome Provia 100F, Nikon F100, 1.8/85mm lens, Lanzarote, November 2003)

Las Salinas del Rio: Seen from a point a few hundred meters left of Mirador del Rio. These salinas are abadoned and no longer used. (Fujichrome Provia 100F, Nikon F100, Nikkor ED AF-S 2.8/80-200mm, Lanzarote, November 2003)

Lake Pfäffikon: Lake Pfäffikon with Pfäffikon/ZH on the left hand side and the lido Strandbad Auslikon on the right hand side. The village Seegräben with the now famous Juckerfarm is visible in the foreground. On the hills in the background lies the village Hittnau. — Minolta XD-7, 26 October 2003

Iserig-Hof: The farmhouse and shop Iserig-Hof nearby the villages Egg and Mönchaltorf. The road is Iserig Strasse. — Minolta XD-7, 26 October 2003

Farmhouses: The farmhouses "Im Chislig" (left) and "Im Heiwinkel" (right). The trees in the middle of the image are on the shore of the small creek Mönchaltorfer Aa which flows into Lake Greifen. — Minolta XD-7, 26 October 2003

Lake Zurich and the Alps: View from a hot air balloon with Heissluft Ballonclub Zürichsee above the highlands of canton Zurich. Here's the Lake Zurich with the ferries between Horgen and Meilen. In the background rising from the mist are the Swiss Alps. — Minolta XD-7, 26 October 2003

Gravel Pit Bäretswil: Yet another gravel pit. This time nearby the village Bäretswil. — Minolta XD-7, 26 October 2003

Forest with snow: View from a hot air ballon to a farm house in a snow-covered forest, somewhere in the area of the Töss valley. — Minolta XD-7, 26 October 2003

Bachtel, Lake Zurich and the Alps: View from a hot air ballon. The hill in the foreground is the Bachte. Behind you can see Lake Zurich and the dam between Rapperswil and Pfäffikon/SZ. The two islands are Lützelau and Ufenau. On the horizon the Swiss Alps. — Minolta XD-7, 26 October 2003

Upper Wetzikon: The district in upper Wetzikon where my parents and my sister lived. My mother didn't know that we were in a hot air balloon. I called her on the mobile phone and told her to step out and look for a hot air ballon. If you see a white dot on a terrace, that's her waving a blanket. — Minolta XD-7, 26 October 2003

Fish: At one time the water extraordinary clear ... usually the visibility was about 1-3 meters, probably due to the many marine biology students taking dive courses at the same time and sitting on the ground. — Nikon Coolpix 990, Banyuls sur Mer, France, Oktober 2003

Anemone with Ghost Crab: An anemone with many little soaring shrimps. Later a friend of mine discovered a very well hidden ghost crab on the left side of the anemone. — Nikon Coolpix 990, Banyuls sur Mer, Mediterranean Sea, France, September 2003

Jellyfish with Plancton: A jellyfish with a lot of plancton around. The placton appears as airy disk because the f-stop was very small. On the flagella one can see rainbow colours. — Cuevas de Diablo, El Hierro, Canary Islands, 7 September 2003

Cave: Lightbeams inside a cave close to the shore. — Cuevas de Camerones, El Hierro, Canary Islands, 8 September 2003

Sea Anemone: At night the sea anemone are blooming all around in the harbour. — La Restinga harbour, El Hierro, Canary Islands, 8 September 2003

Devils Cave: A diver in the devil's cave, one of the most beautiful dive spots around La Restinga. — Cuevas de Diablo, El Hierro, Canary Islands, 7 September 2003

Underwater Landscape: A pretty volcano underwater landscape with wall and clear water at the rock neede of El Bajon. In reality it looked much better. I didn't have a fisheye lens at that time. — El Bajon, El Hierro, Canary Islands, 8 September 2003

Scorpionfish: A little scorpionfish. Sometimes there were that many that one had to look carefully where to touch the rock. — El Bajon, El Hierro, Canary Islands, 8 September 2003

Underwater Landscape: A pretty volcano underwater landscape with wall and clear water at the rock neede of El Bajon. In reality it looked much better. I didn't have a fisheye lens at that time. — El Bajon, El Hierro, Canary Islands, 8 September 2003

Underwater Landscape: A pretty volcano underwater landscape with wall and clear water at the rock neede of El Bajon. In reality it looked much better. I didn't have a fisheye lens at that time. — El Bajon, El Hierro, Canary Islands, 8 September 2003

Trumpet Fish: There are many trumpet fish around El Hierro. What I didn't know that time that they are also capable of changing their colour within fractions of a second. — Desierto, El Hierro, Canary Islands, 5 September 2003

Sea Hare: The spotted sea hare (Aplysia dactylomela) is a large nudibranch. There are also black ones but they were not good for taking pictures. — La Restinga harbour, El Hierro, Canary Islands, 8 September 2003

Seenachtsfest Rapperswil 2003: Fireworks at the 'Seenachtsfest Rapperswil' shot from the dam — Minolta XD7, Fujichrome Velvia, 24mm wideangle lens at about f/4, a few seconds exposure time, 9 August 2003

Seenachtsfest Rapperswil 2003: Fireworks at the 'Seenachtsfest Rapperswil' shot from the dam — Minolta XD7, Fujichrome Velvia, 24mm wideangle lens at about f/4, a few seconds exposure time, 9 August 2003

Seenachtsfest Rapperswil 2003: Fireworks at the 'Seenachtsfest Rapperswil' shot from the dam — Minolta XD7, Fujichrome Velvia, 24mm wideangle lens at about f/4, a few seconds exposure time, 9 August 2003

Seenachtsfest Rapperswil 2003: Fireworks at the 'Seenachtsfest Rapperswil' shot from the dam — Minolta XD7, Fujichrome Velvia, 24mm wideangle lens at about f/4, a few seconds exposure time, 9 August 2003

Seenachtsfest Rapperswil 2003: Fireworks at the 'Seenachtsfest Rapperswil' shot from the dam — Minolta XD7, Fujichrome Velvia, 24mm wideangle lens at about f/4, a few seconds exposure time, 9 August 2003

Seenachtsfest Rapperswil 2003: Fireworks at the 'Seenachtsfest Rapperswil' shot from the dam — Minolta XD7, Fujichrome Velvia, 24mm wideangle lens at about f/4, a few seconds exposure time, 9 August 2003

Seenachtsfest Rapperswil 2003: Fireworks at the 'Seenachtsfest Rapperswil' shot from the dam — Minolta XD7, Fujichrome Velvia, 24mm wideangle lens at about f/4, a few seconds exposure time, 9 August 2003

Seenachtsfest Rapperswil 2003: Fireworks at the 'Seenachtsfest Rapperswil' shot from the dam — Minolta XD7, Fujichrome Velvia, 24mm wideangle lens at about f/4, a few seconds exposure time, 9 August 2003

Seenachtsfest Rapperswil 2003: Fireworks at the 'Seenachtsfest Rapperswil' shot from the dam — Minolta XD7, Fujichrome Velvia, 24mm wideangle lens at about f/4, a few seconds exposure time, 9 August 2003

Seenachtsfest Rapperswil 2003: Fireworks at the 'Seenachtsfest Rapperswil' shot from the dam — Minolta XD7, Fujichrome Velvia, 24mm wideangle lens at about f/4, a few seconds exposure time, 9 August 2003

Weisshorn: Mount Weisshorn nearby Arosa. In the year 2001 there was held an astronomy week in Arosa. Many hobby astronomers took their telescope onto the Swisscom platform on the left hand side. I took my heavy 30cm f/4 Newtonian with me. The sight of the Cirrus nebula and Northamerica nebula in constellation Cygnus with O-III filter was breathtaking. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Wind Energy on Oberalp Pass: The wind energy power plant Gütsch/Andermatt of EW Ursern is the highest of its kind world wide. The diameter of the rotors is 51.5m and it produces 800 kW. More information see Suisse Éole. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Debris flow at Rueun: The debris flow that hit the small village Rueun in the Grisons in November 2002. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Quinten at Lake Walen: The small village Quinten at Lake Walen is only reachable by hiking or by ship. This is the village center with the jetty. In the center of the image one can see the Restaurant Seehus — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Laui at Quinten: A little bit west of Quinten towards Weesen lies a group of houses called Laui. The prominent house in the foreground is the Kublihaus. It was taken over in the year 1808 by Johann Melchior Kubli. He was born in 1750 in Netstal/GL and was 1782 transcript writer in the process against Anna Göldi, the last executed which in Europe. Because he tried to defend her, e had to leave canton Glarus in 1808 and moved to Quinten. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Kapell Bridge: The famous Kapell Bridge at Lucerne across the river Reuss. Downstream nearby is the small Rathaus Bridge. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Arosa: Once it was a village, now it's more like a city. Aerial view of Arosa. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Tamins/Reichenau: At the two villages Tamins and Reichenau the rivers Hinterrhein and Vorderrehin are merging to the river Rhein. On the upper part of the image one can see EMS Chemie, which belongs to Swiss SVP politician Blocher. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Weesen: Aerial view of the village Weesen at Lake Walen. Here is the harbour and the fountain. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Medergen: Light and shadows at the small village Medergen, It lies above Langwies in Plessur valley on the way from Arosa to Chur. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Lake Cauma: The beautiful Lake Caume lies inmidst a forest close to Flims. In the summer time it is a popular place for swimming. Diving is only possible with permission. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Mudslide at Schlans: In November 2002 a giant mudslide nearly missed the small village Schlans in the Swiss Alps in canton Grisons. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Rhein: The river Hinterrhein with the village Rhäzuns. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

Etzel: The restaurant on the summit of Mount Etzel. I have seen it many many times from my flat in Rapperswil, but never been there. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003

KKL and Train Station Luzern: In the foreground the famous KKL (culture and congress center Lucerne) and the train station. The river Reuss exits Lake Lucerne here. — Minolta X-700, 85mm telephoto lens, Fujichrome Provia 100F, 31 May 2003